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Introduction to Fire Eagle
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Fire Eagle is a system that brokers location information. It is designed to help users safely share information about their location with sites, services and people on the Internet. The service has two major functions for users—it allows a user to update their location and then gives them full control of how and where they share that location. A user can perform these functions on the central site, but can also update or access their location data using any other authorized 3rd party application - on the web, on a desktop application or on a mobile device. Applications that access a user's location information can then personalize their service accordingly. This simple diagram explains how Fire Eagle works:
The Fire Eagle service is designed to make it easier for any application that can capture your location to work with any service that would like to use it. But a service doesn't have to either be an updater or consumer of a user's location information. They can do both. This diagram goes into a little more detail about some of the things Fire Eagle makes possible: To make things even easier, Fire Eagle provides a few other API methods that developers can use to disambiguate the names of locations and to perform simple batch queries. Next: Getting Started 1-2-3 |